problem with sessions not carrying over to the next page

pete2000

ok, here goes, what I am trying to do is when a person logs into my website, a session carrying his e-mail address is passed from page to page, but on the second page, the session is empty. here is the code i am using


<?php //setcookie("User", $UserName); ?>
<?php //setcookie("Pword", $Password); ?>
<?php //setcookie("Email", $Ema); ?>

<?php session_start(); 
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var'] = "$Ema";

echo 'The content of $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[\'sess_var\'] is '.$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var'].'<br />';
//header("Cache-control: private"); 

//$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var']?>

the e-mail address is recognised here but not on this page:


<?php session_start();
echo 'The content of $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[\'sess_var\'] is '.$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var'].'<br />';
unset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['sess_var'])?>

it only works when i use the cookies aswell, is that right?
thank you for your help 🙂

dalecosp

Try this and tell us if it works or not:


# Create two files:

# one.php, as follows:

<?php

session_start();
$_SESSION['name']="Bob";

echo "<a href=\"two.php\">Click here!</a>";

?>

two.php:

<?php

session_start();
echo "Hello, ".$_SESSION['name'];
?>

If "two.php" doesn't print "Hello, Bob", please check that the setting for the session data dir in your php.ini file is both the correct path/filename, and is writeable by the web server process ...

Generally, php.ini lists "/tmp" as the session dir, and this setting is not appropriate for a Windows server, for example ....

pete2000

hey, thank you for getting back to me, I did what you told me to do and it works, so I take it it is my code that isn't working and not the settings?, thank you again 🙂

pete2000

cheers for your help, i got it going from page to page now but i want to do is query a mysql database with the data stored in the session which is the e-mail address, but i am getting errors everytime, here is the query:

$query =
"SELECT PASSWORD FROM $table_users WHERE EMAIL =" .$_SESSION['name'].

thank you for your help 🙂

Weedpacket

Originally posted by pete2000
cheers for your help, i got it going from page to page now but i want to do is query a mysql database with the data stored in the session which is the e-mail address, but i am getting errors everytime, here is the query:

$query =
"SELECT PASSWORD FROM $table_users WHERE EMAIL =" .$_SESSION['name'].

thank you for your help 🙂

At a wild guess I'd suspect that there should be quotes in the query around the email address.

$query =
"SELECT PASSWORD FROM $table_users WHERE EMAIL ='" .$_SESSION['name']."'"

pete2000

thanks for getting back to me, i tried what you said but i had no luck🙁